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Boris s blue tidal wave: Jubilant PM heads for Hartlepool vowing to fight for the people s priorities after Tories storm former Labour strongholds with huge by-election win and council raids - as Keir Starmer faces Corbynite demands for lurch to Left
Tories have overturned 3,500 majority to win by a huge margin of 7,000 votes in the Hartlepool by-election
Shadow minister Jim McMahon conceded hours before result admitting Labour was not close to winning
Civil war in full swing in the part with Corbynites demanding Sir Keir Starmer change tack or step aside
Counting is underway across England after all of the UK went to the polls for Super Thursday elections
English council elections: Tories make more gains in the Red Wall
Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Hartlepool after the Conservative Party candidate Jill Mortimer the Hartlepool By-election (Getty Images)
The Conservatives have won control of four councils and almost 100 new seats across the country, with the party making further inroads in traditional Labour areas in local elections in the North and the Midlands.
The Conservatives so far have won Harlow Council in Essex, Dudley Council in the West Midlands, Northumberland Council and Nuneaton & Bedworth in Warwickshire.
However, the party also lost control of the Cambridgeshire Council.
The results are continuing to come in for the 143 council elections that took place yesterday alongside a swathe of mayoral elections and the Hartlepool by-election.
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Tories have overturned 3,500 majority to win by a huge margin of 7,000 votes in the Hartlepool by-election
Shadow minister Jim McMahon conceded hours before result admitting Labour was not close to winning
Civil war in full swing in the part with Corbynites demanding Sir Keir Starmer change tack or step aside
Counting is underway across England after all of the UK went to the polls for Super Thursday elections
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The polls have closed across Britain in the biggest set of votes since the 2019 general election.
Throughout Thursday, voters picked representatives for the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Senedd as well as mayors and local councils in England.
Voters in England and Wales also voted for police and crime commissioners.
The results are due to come in over the next few days - with the outcome of the Hartlepool by-election expected on Friday morning.
But Labour s shadow transport secretary, Jim McMahon, has already admitted defeat over the Westminster seat, telling the BBC his party hasn t got over the line .